Here ya go: http://sparror.cubecinema.com/cube/c...stry/cola2.htm

Two comments:

1) I don't know why I didn't think of this before, but Boylan's (no website that I can find) makes a Real Cane Cola product that is sweetened with cane sugar. Not bad.

2) If you're interested in the history of Coca-Cola (and in what may be in the "secret" recipe), this book may be of interest.

Duh! Google was my friend.

So, the recipe is there for the tinkerin' -- now who's actually doing the bottlin'!? That's what I wanna know!

BTW, the search gods were listening today. Here are a some past discussions on this favorite FT topic:

Drinking Coke - From a real glass bottle
Real, cane sugar Coke alert!
Coke made with Sugar
Finding Coke made with sugar in the US

Thanks for the background on why HFCS is used in the US version of Coke. I figured price was probably the only possible reason - I like Coke, but the HFCS brew is absolutely vile.

Here in San Francisco, our Costco carried Mexican coke. 24 Pack for US$18.99. That's the same price as a 24 pack of Sam Adams. Now I luurve Coca-Cola (pepsi is too sweet) but when it's the same price as beer (for the moment unless the 1400% beer tax increase actually passes), the beer wins!

Besides, I can get made with cane sugar Coke in Singapore, Hong Kong and Malaysia. I'm there often enough...

Interesting spin on the Canadian sugar... I wouldn't have thought of that, but I have noticed the same on Canadian foods.

I've done a lot of research on the corn/HFCS being someone with a corn intolerance. The speculation on the obesity epidemic can be directly traced to the increased use of HFCS and other corn derivatives in our food making processes in the US. No other country comes close to the crap that goes in our foods. It is going to take a few years and it's going to take a grass roots effort of concerned people (like many folks on FT that I've noticed), but the federal government is going to have to take a close look at this relationship and what it's doing to people in the US, and why other countries don't have as many obese people as we do.

FWIW, one of things this corn stuff does to me is makes me want to eat more. When I get into a corn product, one side effect is I have a day or so that I can't put food in my mouth fast enough... all day. Nothing seems to satisfy me. One speculation about why food makers use these products is to get that effect, so people want more, thus eat more, thus have to BUY more. So, it all comes back to corporate greed, and in this case, Gordon Gecko is wrong, greed isn't good when it comes to the health of this country.

It's true that Canada has access to Cuban sugar, however, Cuba is rated #10 in world production of sugar (in 2002, as per this: http://spectrumcommodities.com/educa...ics/sugar.html ).

JP

Denver Costco has the cane sugar Coca-Cola as well.

I started not drinking sweet drinks (pop, fruit juices) as much as possible several years ago. I also try to avoid foods with more chemicals than recognizable food. Now, I can't eat lots of stuff with preservatives in it. All I can taste is the chemicals. I can't even stand splenda. Not that I'm great with food--I still don't eat enough veggies.

But, I make an exception for Coke with real sugar. Yummmmm.

In addition to other reasons mentioned above, HFCS is much cheaper than sucrose thanks to US farm subsidies and protectionist sugar tariffs. One possible advantage to ethanol production driving up the price of corn, though, might be that sucrose becomes cheaper than HFCS.

I thought this was interesting.
I learn about Passover Coke on FT one day and the next I read about it in The Times:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/16/dining/16susie.html
By JULIA MOSKIN
Published: April 16, 2008
TO Passover cooks parched for new ideas, wandering in a desert of matzo and dried-out brisket, Susie Fishbein is like a tall, icy Coca-Cola — the kosher for Passover kind, made with sugar instead of corn syrup.

I guess I have a sister that loves me - for my 50th birthday last month, she brought up 5 cases of the good stuff (Dublin Dr Pepper - remember there is no period after Dr!) up to me^ I think she got it in Temple at a Wal-Mart and bought the supply out.

Swimmin' M

It's really not hard to find Mexican Coke made with cane sugar, it's the price that's off-putting. Even my local Kroger (I live in a small town in a rural area) has mexican coke in the mexican food section of the store. It's $1.99 for a single bottle, but since I only drink one or two a month, that's not a problem.

You can also go into just about any little hole in the wall mexican grocery store (we have several in my area) and find it, usually cheaper.

Take a look around your town, I am sure you will find some. ^
(and stay away from HFCS, it's the devil! lol)

Just drink Jones Soda. It tastes better anyways with or without sugar. As a bonus, it's available now on every Alaska Airlines flight.